Word: dad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girlish, ghost-ridden prose, the sultry actress offered a first-person glimpse into how a poor, tomboyish beanpole from a little Italian town near Naples eventually blossomed into a bosomy international movie star. Life was hard in the slums, hardest of all when young Sophia learned that Mom and Dad had never married. "A shadow had fallen across my tiny world. Suddenly I was insecure." But a girl friend's advice helped: "I held my head high and my body erect and looked everyone in the eye." Soon others were looking back, not necessarily in the eye, and Sophia...
Last week the district attorney announced the shocking news-little Dean was the No. 1 suspect. He had made three separate "statements" ("I stabbed Dad first, then Mom"). He had planned the parricide, he said, while lying in bed several nights before. On the night of the crime, police said, Dean read an article in the Mormon magazine Era entitled, "I Think of Papa." It was illustrated by gnarled hands peeling an apple with a knife, ended: "How priceless is the memory of a good father." Dean left his Boy Scout knife folded inside Era, then went to bed. Later...
Born in Dallas, Ernie Banks was a star in high school basketball and football, high-jumped 5 ft. 11 in., ran a quarter-mile in 51 sec. and never played baseball. "My dad, he bought me a glove for $2.98, and he used to bribe me with nickels and dimes to play catch," he recalls. In 1950, a Negro league scout spotted him playing softball, and he became a barnstormer with the Kansas City Monarchs. "Ten-fifteen -maybe twenty thousand miles a year, and our biggest night was in Hastings, Neb.." says Banks. "We got $15 apiece...
Togetherness. In Anamosa, Iowa, Gary Lee Wessling, 17, asked to be transferred from the Men's Reformatory in Anamosa to the State Penitentiary in Fort Madison so he could serve his 30-year stretch in the same pen where his dad...
America's men were reared with rubber nipples and talcum powder to an apron-strung neurosis. Homosexuality (8,000,000 in the U.S. at last estimate) went on the upswing--Dad had the only woman worth wanting. And Father became the fall-guy for every situation comedy and Sunday color comic--the benign, well - meaning, oft - stumbling, ever - bungling apex of the Oedipus triangle...